Alexa

April 30, 2008

Last week we had the incredible experience of having Instapundit, one of the world's top ranked news and political blogs, cover the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. This single post by Instapundit exposed thousands upon thousands of people to this inspirational story.

ABOUT.COM, owned by the New York Times and recognized as a top 15 content site, just covered the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. In less than 24 hours, thousands of readers have visited the main event page for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek!

Please take the time to thank author Wayne Parker for covering this important human interest story. Commenting does NOT require you to sign up for an account so it is very easy. If you utilize Stumbleupon, Digg!, Mixx or other social bookmarking please do so on Wayne Parker's story.

April 25, 2008

Literally thousands of new and unique visitors will be exposed to the exciting story of the 758 mile Equal Parenting Bike Trek thanks to the world famous blog Instapundit! Instapundit brings more exposure to this event/story than any traditional media source possibly could. This news and political blog averages between 250,000-500,000 visitors a day!! Truly stunning by all comparisons.

Are you one of the few on planet earth that has not heard of Instapundit? You might want to review this summary. Ok...now you see why this is so huge? I actually gave up tracking my visitor count on the main page for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek because there were literally thousands of people viewing it at once.

April 22, 2008

Truly amazing new media buzz over the five fathers that are pedaling 758 miles for their children!!!

Some of the word's top ranked blogs have already covered this event/story. What is even more exciting is that these are blogs that cover different topics; we have fatherhood, cycling, and news blogs covering this event for a good cause. There is much excitement over the upcoming departure event in Lansing Michigan at the Capitol.

Please show your support and attend this amazing event being held at the Lansing Capitol in Michigan. ALL ARE WELCOME! A large crowd will help energize our cyclists! We already have confirmation of media coverage (TV, Newspaper & Radio) for the departure!

We Need Your Support and Help Now!

Ways you can show your support for this event:

1) Please donate for this amazing event - no amount is too small or too large. It is very expensive to pull off such a large event over 758 miles with 5 cyclists and chase crew. Donating early will allow us to advertise this event, hand out brochures along the route, gas expense for the chase vehicle, a bed to sleep in at night for the cyclists, etc.

2) Blog about this event and link to this page. Blog on MySpace and more! Post on Facebook!

3) Social Bookmark this page on StumbleUpon, Digg!,Del.icio.us, Reddit and more. Digg! and Del.icio.us can be used via the links directly below this page.

4) Email this page to everyone you know and tell them about this wonderful cause for children.

BOTH will be on Minister Ronald Smith's ultra-popular Talk Show "Children Need Both Parents". Tune in for this special show to find out how Robert Pedersen and Derek Bailey, MSW are forming an incredible coalition in Michigan. The link below will take you to the homepage for this show where you can acquire the phone number to call in and more.

CRISPE and Dance4Equality will both be present at the departure for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek on August 7th 2008 12 Noon-2PM at the Lansing Michigan Capitol. Ask off of work now for this special shared parenting event.

February 22, 2008

Angela and Robert Pedersen on the Ultra Popular Talk Show "Children Need Both Parents". "Children Need Both Parents" is hosted by Ronald Smith and Robin Denison. The turnout by those who listened to this talkshow live was quite high so we were obviously thrilled by the support.

You can download a recording of the entire show at the "Children Need Both Parents" talkshow homepage - download the episode listed under the date 02/21/08. If you do not want to download a recording you can also listen to the show using the same link above. Another option - You can also listen to it via the hipcast player below.

Make sure you listen to the various folks that called towards the end of the show. They truly provide a unique and interesting perspective in this show. Yes, the one making all the noise is our son Anthony Caius Pedersen - already he is trying to give his two cents to the discussion!

One of the great things about a talkshoe talkshow is that listeners can also chat and post comments during the interview. Here are some comments listed below:

[9:36:40 PM] <Crispe>CRISPE will be there for the bikers

[9:46:09 PM] <Crispe>Bring it on Robert

[10:03:49 PM] <Guest 11>Hello Robert and Angela.. I just got home.. !!

[10:06:10 PM] <mountain19>God bless you guys and gals. real citizens all of you.

[10:06:30 PM] <Guest 11>Tell Robert Marcie from Michigan is here to support..

[10:23:55 PM] <Guest 11>Robert is a great dad!! And his wife Angela is the bomb.. What Great Parents...

[10:35:39 PM] <ctyofangels/ survivors>thank you robert and angela

[10:36:03 PM] <MikeSaxton>Rob & Angela ROCK! See you all Sunday. Ron, I want an autographed book!

<BetterhalfofSplit>Great Show guys! fight the fight and keep the faith

[10:46:06 PM] <Guest 16>Tell Angela to give the little one a hug for me.. He soooo cute.. talk to ya soon..

December 28, 2007

Below is a list of media coverage of the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek - we are striving to further grow our media coverage. Things are looking promising and we are already getting some inquiries of this exciting event. The 2008 cyclists will be Robb MacKenzie, Robert Pedersen and our new cyclist Brian Downs, Esq. Stay tuned for more.

The media and blogger coverage of the Equal Parenting Bike Trek has been simply amazing! This list will continue to grow as time nears the departure date of August 11th, 2007 for an area very close to the Lansing, Michigan Capitol. There will be media coverage throughout the entire 700 miles Robb MacKenzie and Robert Pedersen will have to pedal. We are also aware of post-D.C. Rally interviews that are already scheduled.

For media inquiries please contact Angela Pedersen at

269-420-3203

This media and blogger coverage list will be updated on a frequent basis! This is a long list for a very good reason! Children deserve better! Children deserve equal time with both fit and willing parents.

(**NOTE** On the left tab you can select pages and posts...look to see very frequent and numerous posts each day)

Channel 3 WWMT TV News Video

Fox News Promo Video

Fox News Channel 17 Full Interview

NEWS 8 WOOD TV

Phyllis Schlafly - NATIONAL MEDIA BREAK FOR THE EQUAL PARENTING BIKE TREK! If you have no clue as to why Phyllis Schlafly covering Robert Pedersen's Hero Dad Runner-Up Win and the EQUAL Parenting Bike Trek is an incredible honor...you may need a refresher in a history course! This is HUGE! Lawyer, Author, Columnist, Political Analyst, founder of Eagle Forum, a legend, etc. Phyllis Schlafly's articles are syndicated in over 100 newspapers nationwide and her radio talk show is on over 460 stations nationwide! Phyllis Schlafly pictured below on right.

Radio Lia Show - Nationwide audience! CMA Award winner! A Media powerhouse! Listen to the unedited radio interview of Equal Parenting Bike Trek cyclists Robert Pedersen and Robb MacKenzie!

It is very important to note that this Fatherhood Summit is a National event and NOT exclusive to just Michigan. This is the first event leading up to the 2nd Annual Family Preservation Festival which is to take place on August 15th-17th 2008 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Fatherhood Summit will bring together husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and grandparents in an effort to begin the New Year recognizing the need for repair of fatherhood nationwide.

So...why should you attend?

This event is packed with an incredible list of speakers, elected officials and family preservation experts!

December 22, 2007

The Fall 2007 issue of "The Liberator" which is published by the ACFC did a phenomenal job in reporting the 2007 Equal Parenting Bike Trek with Robert Pedersen and Robb MacKenzie! Several full page spreads with color were dedicated to this incredible story. We are very thankful for the incredible job that The Liberator staff did on this event. Each issue of this newspaper seems to improve by leaps and bounds! You can order your copy of this newspaper through the ACFC.

November 29, 2007

Please attend and help spread the word on this critical event leading up to the 2008 Family Preservation Rally! The National Fatherhood Summit will be held in Grand Rapids Michigan and this is going to be a huge event. The speakers list below is truly incredible!! Much of the information is below and you can also visit the webpage for the National Fatherhood Summit.

November 23, 2007

Good to see this excellent review of Stephen Baskerville's breakthrough book. I have also seen that people in the divorce "industry" itself, often judges, their government employees in the FOC and lawyers, are really beat up about the injustice that they realize they are inflicting on fathers. The problem is, as this review points out, no one knows what to do about it. The machine has become too big. It now seems to have a momentum, a life, of its own. This is why we need to continue to inform others and implore them all to become politically active to rein in the power of the Divorce Industry to destroy the lives of parents and their children. Let’s use this review by sending it to your politicians and judges maybe even to some of your local lawyers out of the Yellow Pages along with yet another message to these folks for them to be champions of change.

Most Americans have made their peace with no-fault divorce, believing easy divorce to be an enhancement of individual liberty. But a new book by Stephen Baskerville argues that permitting unilateral divorce allows an unprecedented scope for government intrusion into ordinary people's lives. Taken Into Custody has several breakthrough insights.

First, no-fault divorce frequently means unilateral divorce: One party wants a divorce against the wishes of the other, who wants to stay married. This fact means that the divorce has to be enforced. The coercive machinery of the state is wheeled into action to separate the reluctantly divorced party from the joint assets of the marriage, typically the home and the children. Involving the family court in the minutiae of family life amounts to an unprecedented blurring of the boundaries between public and private life.

People under the jurisdiction of the family courts can have virtually all of their private lives subject to its scrutiny. If the courts are influenced by feminist ideology, that ideology can extend its reach into every bedroom and kitchen in America.

Thus, the social experiment of no-fault divorce, which was supposed to increase personal liberty has had the unintended consequence of empowering the state.

I had an unusual opportunity to see this first-hand last summer when I did a Continuing Legal Education workshop for judges. Most of the judges had significant experience with family courts, so they were unusually well-informed. My audiences are usually amazed when I point out that family courts perpetrate greater invasions of personal privacy than any other governmental agency. Not the judges. I had expected some resistance from them on this point. After all, they are the ones doing the intruding.

When I ran through my usual litany of courts telling fathers how much money they have to spend, how little time they get to spend with their kids and who gets to spend Christmas Day with the kids, the judges were all shaking their heads. I asked: "So, do you enjoy that part of your jobs?" The audible moaning said it all: They hate that part of their jobs.

Audiences are sometimes surprised to learn that women initiate most divorces. They are even more surprised when I tell them that women aren't necessarily worse off economically after divorce. After all, "the most quoted demographic statistic of the 1980s" was the claim that women's standard of living falls by 73% after divorce, while men's rises by 42%.

I usually have to take some time to refute that claim. But the judges already knew that. They all started shaking their heads when I flashed those statistics on the screen for the purpose of refuting them.

One of the judges got exasperated. He stood up and said, with obvious disgust in his voice, "These women want me to throw their husbands out of the house, make him pay child support, while she keeps the kids to raise herself without interference from him."

General nods of agreement all around the room.

No fathers' rights advocate could have said it better.

But fathers' rights advocate Stephen Baskerville has harsh words to say about the entire no-fault industry, including the judges. The court-appointed therapists, the domestic violence experts, the visitation supervisors, the teachers of parenting classes, all these experts seem to be there to help divorcing families. But on Baskerville's telling, they simply extract additional payments from the family, and do nothing to save the marriage.

He reports that even mediators find that they are not allowed to try to preserve the marriage. Their role is simply to talk the reluctant party into acquiescing. Baskerville represents all these professionals, including the lawyers and judges, as having a self-interested motive in stoking the flames of personal resentments and maintaining the divorce industry.

What then, of my judges, who were obviously disgusted with the system and their role in it?

I have also talked to many family law attorneys who are fed up with narcissistic and myopic clients. How can it be that all these people are keeping the system going out of their own self-interest, and yet profess disdain for that same system?

I think the answer lies in what economists call perverse incentives.

No one likes the actual outcome of the system, but no one has an incentive or the ability to change it. So people go along, following the rules as laid down, trying to make marginal improvements to the best of their ability, and still being sickened by the whole sight. The incentives are so perverse that it is as if everyone were motivated by a desire to create as many divorces as possible.

Baskerville has done a great service in laying out these twisted incentives in detail. I hope that family law practitioners will read this book with an open mind, and not take it personally when Baskerville accuses them of bad faith. He may be over the top about people's motivations. But his analysis is essentially correct.

The public is getting past the "happy talk" about "good divorces," because the children of divorce are finally telling their stories. We desperately need to get past our fatalism about the inevitability of divorce.

Taken Into Custody makes it crystal clear that the law has created incentives to divorce. Therefore, the law can be changed to reduce those incentives. The publication of Taken Into Custody could be the turning point in restoring some balance to family law. If you care about the condition of marriage in America, read this book.

Jennifer Roback Morse is the senior research fellow in Economics at the Action Institute and the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World.

November 11, 2007

Twice as many sponsors! Twice as many commitments to donate! An additional cyclist added to the team! More advertising of the event! Two billboards to promote the event - locations are Battle Creek and Lansing. We are anticipating roughly 3-4 times the amount of media coverage!

October 27, 2007

We received quite a few compliments on the editing of this video on our main video page for the Equal Parenting Bike Trek so we thought we would post it again on DaddyBlogger. Fathers4Justice, Equal Parenting Bike Trek and CRISPE swarm a PA courthouse!